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Newbie Partitioning gone wrong

i had win98 and win2k partitioned on my hard disk. i then wanted to add linux to my computer so i created a new partition for linux by shrinking win98. I installed linux redhat 9 and it works fine, but i can't load euther of the windows opering systems.

Is there anyway of getting them back or accessing my windows files through linux?

i know that in the earlier versions of linux i could view my windows partition but i don't know how to do it in redhat linux 9.

Make sure that /mnt/windows is a valid directory on your linuxfilesystem. And change hdb1 to the valid name for you win98 partition. i´m afrad the you may have ruined you windows installation and you will not be able to boot on on it.. but you can try to add the partition in your grub or lilo boot loader and reboot.

Partitions

i tried mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows but i get a message saying kernal doesn't support file system. it did the same for my other partition which is fat32. i also tried mount /dev/hda1 /windows this shows the partition but its in wierd characters, like it can't read it properly.

FAT32 is a separate file system from NTFS so you'll need to use mount with '-t vfat.' I'm almost postive that the kernel should support vfat but if NTFS isn't configured, you can probably build a new kernel.
You stated that you can run 'mount /dev/hda1 /windows.' If you can run this, I'm going to assume that /etc/fstab has taken care of this. Check (or list) the file for the correct file type.